Deep Syntax Annotation of the Sequoia French Treebank

We define a deep syntactic representation scheme for French, which abstracts away from surface syntactic variation and diathesis al-ternations, and describe the annotation of deep syntactic representations on top of the surface dependency trees of the Sequoia Corpus. The resulting deep-annotated corpus will be freely available, and hopefully useful for corpus linguistics studies and for training deep analyzers to prepare semantic analysis. 1